Me and my colleague, Michael Schönfelder (clarinet) present you three pieces by some temporary english composers. This is one of them. From my view these are little musical gems in freetonal style. This is a special meditative one.Gordon Jacob (1895-1984): Siciliano for clarinet and piano, performed by Michael Schönfelder (clarinet) and Andreas Pfaul (piano).Gordon Jacob was a british composer, conductor and music teacher from London.For further information, see this link, please:http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Jacob

What a great repertoire choice ! Music lovers should be more aware of the incredible riches in 20th century English music. The composers were particularly adept at producing such beautiful pastoral pieces. I knew Gordon Jacob but not the other two composers I've a feeling this piece is originally for oboe ? That being a favourite instrument in English wind music. If so, I think some of the pastoral character may be lost due to the clarinet's somewhat sharper sound. Beautifully played by both of you.

Thank you both, Chris and Monica, for listening your nice answer! Yes, Monica, I will go to Holland these holidays again and visit Chris! And how are you?

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What a great repertoire choice ! Music lovers should be more aware of the incredible riches in 20th century English music. The composers were particularly adept at producing such beautiful pastoral pieces.

Yes, I think, these are interesting pieces, especially from the harmonical view. There are some surprising and interesting dissonances in them.

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I knew Gordon Jacob but not the other two composers

Well, things happen. I didn´t know all of them.

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I've a feeling this piece is originally for oboe ? That being a favourite instrument in English wind music. If so, I think some of the pastoral character may be lost due to the clarinet's somewhat sharper sound.

There's definitely also a Siciliano for oboe and piano, see http://www.free-scores.com/boutique/bou ... lef=440067, but I guess that may be another piece. It's just that I have quite seldom heard English clarinet pieces (I think it's more of a " German instrument", if there is such a thing as that), whereas English oboe pieces and lovely oboe solos are plentiful. But Gordon Jacob was a resourceful composer who wrote a lot more than I thought. Not many piano solo pieces, I'll have to check out the few there are.

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